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Digimon or Pokemon

May seem like a dumb question, but which one came first?My friends and I had a huge argument all day over which one came first.I looked it up on the internet, but I can't find a reliable site.Some say Digimon came first; others Pokemon.Some say Digimon existed first, but Pokemon was dubbed first in the U.S.Some say Digimon came out in 1994 and Pokemon 1995.Some say it's the other way around.I hope you people have prior knowledge to this.Because it's a killer controversary at school.So which is it?

Well I looked it up and it says pokemon aired in 98 -.- that doesn't sound right at all >.> but i guess it is . and digimon was aired in 99

Could have sworn both shows came out earlier than that but yup pokemon came first .

I think you have that confused with the 4 Kids version, because the original Japanese version of animes come out way before they dub it and release it in the US

That's so not fair!! -_-

I looked it up on Wikipedia and if I'm correct, they said that the release date for Pokemon was 1995 0.0 and as for Digimon, it said either 1997 or 1999 Well, I've done all I can do. I hope I helped, even just a little

A bit off-topic but I have to say: Digimon will always totally own Pokemon
Digimon had a better story, cooler looking monsters, and better characters so Pikachu can get back in his pokeball that I'm about to throw off of this cliff

I luff them both, though thye get stale after awhile...every digimon episode is about them fighting...almost losing....finding inner strength them BAM they win. But still fun to watch even if it does do that haha.

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." - Judy Garland

I luff them both, though thye get stale after awhile...every digimon episode is about them fighting...almost losing....finding inner strength them BAM they win. But still fun to watch even if it does do that haha.

And every episode of Pokemon is about Ash basking in his own incontrovertible arrogance. He doesn't lose one single match for the entire first season pretty much. He learns to communicate with other creatures with no inherent ability to do anything else but say their own names. At least Digimon could talk to some extent. On top of that you have the annoying team rocket that incessantly pops up every episode and at first it was slightly creative and refreshingly funny, but three years later and they're still playing the team rocket card? What the hell is up with that?

Oh and, lest we forget that Ash cries if he loses a match and is completely dumbstruck as to how he could lose. The show just annoyed me. The story got mindnumbingly predictable. Digimon would switch it up and have some new plots where as Pokemon always followed the general composition of "Ash meets new people at said new town, meets new pokemon, team rocket tries to take said pokemon, team rocket fails coorespondingly, narrator says some lame joke that possibly involves pun on words. Repeat for 50 more episodes."

Digimon came out on June 25, 1995 as a vurtual pet (Literally the "Boy Tamagotchi")

Pokemon Came out on Febuary 27, 1996 on the Nintendo Game boy (The original Red and Blue in Japan, From what I can see on Wikipedia)

So Digimon came first. Is that all you need to know?

This says it all......

Digimon came first from the Tamagotchi game.... now that I think about it I do remember I guy saying that Digimon came out before Pokemon. Tk always knows all the stuff anyway when it comes to Digimon versus Pokemon so yup.
LOVE DIGIMON IT ROCKS....!!! <3333

Well, Pokemon was airred here before Digimon was..therefore I saw Digimon as a rip-off version. T'is a shame that they dubbed Pokemon so crap though, they even renamed all of the characters. I mean, how did they get the name "Ash Ketchum" from the name Satoshi? And "Misty" from Kasumi? Tracey Sketchit.....come on!! What the hell is that?! Just because he likes drawing..